Category Archives: Holidays

Posts about celebrating holidays with our family and those we love. Who doesn’t love a good holiday celebration?

Happy Easter

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Today we had a great Easter Sunday. I slept in, and woke up to find a trail of candy leading to a basket the “Easter Bunny” left for me. I have the best husband in the world. :) Later while Josh was at a church meeting the Easter Bunny came back and hid some eggs for him to find. It was a way fun, happy morning and we both felt like excited kids again (and got excited for the kid we’ll get to leave an Easter basket for next year).

After church we had some good friends from our ward over for an Easter dinner. Josh’s family has had a tradition of celebrating Easter by reading and learning about the Savior’s life for the week building up to His resurrection, then having an Easter dinner of food the Savior would have eaten. We tried it this year, and despite some unplanned-for adventures in the kitchen, it turned out well and we had a tasty dinner of fish, unleavened bread, and grapes (and rolls, as a backup for if when the homemade unleavened bread failed, and salad and potatoes, because they’re tasty). We really enjoyed having good friends over, too.

We hope you all enjoyed this Easter Sunday and got to remember, like we did, the wonderful blessings the Savior’s atonement and resurrection bring to our lives. Happy Easter!

Image from the Church's gospel Library. Mary and the Resurrected Jesus Christ by Simon Dewey.

Our Calvin Snowman

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If you’ve ever read Calvin and Hobbes, you’ll know what type of snowmen Calvin creates – full of character, pretty funny, and maybe just a bit morbid. In December we got the first big snow of the season, and Josh and I (inadvertently) created our own Calvin snowman.

He started out just fine, see?

We used some remnants of our Halloween costumes for the hat and glasses. Cute, huh?

But the next day, to our horror, we looked out the window and saw this:

Alas, someone had shot our snowman in the back! Okay, not really. It’s actually just another disaster with Rit dye (will that stuff ever stop haunting me?). I guess the hat had some traces of red dye on it. And then it rained during the night and, voila, our snowman has a red bullet stain on his back.

But the funny part is, our snowmen started to act like he did get shot. Observe what happened over the next day and a half (with no intervention on our part):

Tragic, isn’t it? And we didn’t even mean to make such a morbid snowman…still, he gave us a lot of laughs. :)

Still Here (and with a heater, too)

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Hello! We’ve neglected posting for the past little bit, and now we want to catch up. Overall, life is good! We spent Christmas and New Year’s with the Lymans in Parker, and it was awesome. Some of my favorite activities were watching Zach play Dangerous Hunts, listening to Chris and Caleb jam on the guitar and piano, playing Mastermind with Luke, playing Just Dance with Heather, and eating delicious food with everyone all vacation long. Great vacation!

Josh started a new semester and is enjoying his classes, and work is going well for me. We still love living in the house we’re renting. Last week we came home from work and school, walked in the door, and noticed right away that it was cold – about 60 degrees cold, our thermostat told us. Our heater had somehow gone out that day. But after looking at the heater, looking up fix-it-yourself instructions online, not fixing the heater, calling the landlords, and waiting a bit, an electrician finally came and, hooray! fixed the heat that night. Our landlords were awesome and very helpful, so thank you! While we waited I did a lot of cooking in the kitchen (it was warmest by the oven), and then we wore our hoodies and laid under lots of covers and played iPod games. Not a bad night, really.

So, life is good! And since pictures are more fun than paragraphs, here are some recent pictures, in in no particular order. Enjoy!

Some Pictures

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…of our visit to Texas over Thanksgiving. We’ve got more pictures, but here are a couple my mom sent me. We had a blast! Highlights include Thanksgiving dinner, spending time with the family, playing Just Dance on the Wii, watching Texas high school football playoff games, playing Tron (not till 3 a.m., as we’ve done in the past, but still till late), eating delicious food, laser tag, and overall just lots of fun. Thanks, Ellsworth family!